Oracle corporation actually made an industry out of making sure customers' data is protected. That's one of the reasons why Oracle database sells, and why it pr

Oracle corporation actually made an industry out of making sure customers' data is protected. That's one of the reasons why Oracle database sells, and why it pretty much killed or ate all other competition in the relational database management system space. Just take a look at the encryption features and PKI / SmartCard support in the database, and I think we're done here. Oracle might be stupid, but they're not dumb.